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The Program is advertised as a 1st grade through 8th grade Boys Lacrosse Program, however, there are a few age requirements that must be considered. No player may play if they have turned 15 years of age by August 31 in the year preceding competition per the National Youth Lacrosse Guidelines. Also, although the competitive team structure starts with the 4th grade level, many towns invite their 3rd and sometimes 2nd graders to play in an instructional program.
The Hillsborough Youth Lacrosse program has competitive teams at the 4th grade level and above. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade levels are primarily clinic teams focused on developing basic skills. Each competitive team will play a Home and Away schedule primarily on weekends with multiple games played per day. The clinic teams will play intra-team scrimmages. Third grade players will also have opportunities to play games with local opponents. Teams, number of players per team and individual make-up of teams are determined on a year by year basis. Depending on the number of players that register each year, the Board of Directors decides on the number of teams at each grade level. A player's grade is used as a general guideline but doesn't automatically dictate the team assignment. The number of players at each grade, their age and prior lacrosse experience are all considerations that impact team assignments.
There will be an attempt to equally balance all Teams to allow for the maximum playing time per player. League rules permit a younger player to move up to play on a higher grade team; however, they prohibit an older player to move down to play on a younger grade team. By leveling the amount of players on each team, no one team should have an inordinate amount of players compared to another, except if the largest group of players is on the oldest team. Players required to move up will jump up only one grade.
A player is normally assigned to their grade level team. However, if team leveling is necessary, a player will be assigned to a specific team based upon the following criteria: a) the candidate player can only move up one grade level; b) has the player participated prior in a sanctioned outdoor Lacrosse Program (ex. Hillsborough Youth Lacrosse, another town's lacrosse program, Middle School Lacrosse. Playing on an indoor Team does not constitute playing in an outdoor program); c) in age order, the oldest players will be moved up to the higher level team. In no circumstance will an player be moved up based upon ability nor will a younger player jump over an older player and/or vice versa. The HYL Board reserves the right to subjectively assign a player to any team deemed appropriate. Special consideration will be given to goalies as to team determination.
There will be an attempt made to equally play all participants at a specific position on a team, not including man-up and man-down formations. These positions are designated as attack, midfield, defense and goalie. Depending upon the size of the team, all participants can expect to play a minimum of one quarter or a maximum of the entire game (Goalie). If the score is lop-sided and out of reach in either direction, the players with the shortest amount of time should be given every opportunity to equalize their participation. A lop-sided score is defined as follows: Grade 4 – 4 goals; Grades 5 & 6 – 5 goals; and Grades 7 & 8 – 6 goals. (The 1-quarter minimum is only a guideline and players should expect to play longer)
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Air Quality Research in the Field and in the Lab
The ESRL Chemical Sciences Division hosted a special Air Quality Research symposium the afternoon of Friday 10 August 2012 in the Multipurpose Room (GC402) of the DSRC. The Symposium honored former CSD Deputy Director Jim Meagher, who retired in May after a remarkable career in science and science management. Photos of the event
- Symposium Schedule
- 1:30 Introductions (A.E. MacDonald, NOAA ESRL and A.R. Ravishankara, NOAA ESRL CSD)
- 1:45 Jim Meagher and the Accomplishments of the SOS Program (Peter Daum, Brookhaven National Lab)
- 2:15 Building NOAA's National Air Quality Forecasting Capability (Paula Davidson, NWS)
- 2:45 Advances in Global Modeling for the Scientific Understanding of the Air Quality - Climate Nexus (V. Ramaswamy, GFDL)
- 3:15 Reception
- 3:50 Characterizing VOC Emissions from Fossil Fuel Production, Processing, and Consumption (Jessica Gilman, CIRES/ESRL CSD)
- 4:20 Long-Term Ozone Trends Across the United States: Regional and Intercontinental Influences (Owen Cooper, CIRES/ESRL CSD)
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Aiming to export Japanese convenience store culture, four big Japanese companies are laying plans for expansion into China. Seven Eleven, Lawson, Mini Stop and Family Mart are all intending to open more stores in the near future, going up against both domestic and other foreign competitors for a lucrative slice of China's convenience store pie.
While China has its own convenience store chains, such as Kedi, which has over 700 outlets in Shanghai and other parts of China, there's no particular chain dominating the market nationwide, leaving the field open for Japanese names, as well as Tesco and Wallmart (who operate under the name of Smart Choice, or Hui Xuan in Chinese), to take the lead. And it's not just the big players who are competing; China also has an abundance of privately run local stores.
According to Nikkei Trendy, big convenience store chains in China have the image of being cheap and rather fashionable. In addition they stock foreign goods unavailable in locally run stores. Japanese convenience chains stock items like bento pack lunches and onigiri rice balls which are perceived by the Chinese public as being high-quality products. The Chinese media, who've been taking note of the convenience-store wars, have been impressed with the standard of service at Japanese convenience stores compared with that of locally run small businesses.
As in Japan, convenience stores don't just limit themselves to selling everyday goods; it's also now possible to pay utility bills and make purchases over the Internet using a Lakala terminal. These terminals are proving very popular, and there are now over 40,000 spread across 246 towns and cities in China. Having one of these terminals available in-store appears to be a key factor toward winning over the market in China.
Plans for expansion by Japanese firms are as follows: Lawson aims to have opened 10,000 stores by 2020; Family Mart wants to increase the number of stores from the existing 400 stores into 4,500; Seven Eleven, who opened 100 stores in Beijing and Tianjin in 2010, wants to open 50 in Chengdu by the end of 2011; and Mini Stop is slated to 200 shops within five years.
One difficulty that Japanese businesses might encounter is anti-Japanese sentiment. At the end of 2010 when tensions were running high over the Senkaku Islands issue, Japanese retailers Ito Yokado and Isetan suffered damage at the hands of protesters. However, at present, the market looks set to expand throughout 2011.
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International tracker evaluation system helps biologists improve otter monitoring.
By Ciel Wharton
It is a warm fall day, and a group of TPWD biologists is staring intently at a clue left on the muddy banks of the Neches River. A white note card pointing to a nearby animal track reads, "Who made this track?" Ideas race through the minds of the group members as they attempt to solve the mystery. The track is way too small to be an alligator, but too big to be a mink. There are five toes — with webbing — and nail marks showing. Could it really be? Yes, this track was left by one of Texas' most inconspicuous inhabitants — the Northern River Otter.
River otters are one of the Houston Zoo's most popular attractions because of their playful nature, yet the zoo may be one of the few places wildlife watchers are likely to see them. Historically, river otters were common throughout the eastern half of Texas, but today they are only known to be in the major watersheds of the eastern quarter of the state. Does this mean that the state's otter population is in decline? TPWD has been trying to answer this question for the last 30 years. Since 1977, they have conducted otter track surveys under bridges in East Texas to monitor the distribution and status of river otters in Texas in addition to the effects of otter trapping (which is legal with appropriate permits).
Identifying river otter tracks can be challenging because soil type, animal movement and weather all affect a track's appearance. For example, a raccoon track in dry sand can easily be misidentified and reported as an otter track. Because of the inherent difficulty of tracking, skill levels among otter surveyors vary greatly. Therefore, intensive training and assessment of each tracker's abilities is necessary in order to ensure monitoring accuracy.
To address these concerns and work toward improving otter monitoring, Texas A&M organized a two-day tracker evaluation workshop for 20 TPWD biologists. This evaluation system was originally designed by South African Louis Liebenberg and CyberTracker Conservation to validate the tracking skill of the Kalahari Bushmen. To date, this is the only internationally recognized evaluation system being used to measure tracking skill.
The tracker evaluation is a test of tracking skill and knowledge, but it also serves as in-depth training. During the workshop, participants were asked to identify and interpret tracks and other animal signs that ranged from turtle and crayfish trails to nutria scat and otter tracks.
Since the workshop, TPWD participants have indicated that it was a resounding success and hopes are high that river otters can now be more accurately monitored. Wildlife biologist Gary Calkins says, "This is one of the best training opportunities that we have had the privilege to attend. I would love to attend this workshop again, at least once a year; there is that much benefit." Armed with their expanded tracking knowledge, the wildlife detectives are ready to take away some of the mystery of Texas' elusive river otters.
Future workshops will be offered to the public. For more information, visit <www.wildlifetrackers.com>.


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9.0 Anti Hadeeth claims that books on Arabic grammar and language should not be used in interpreting and understanding the Quran. We must let the Quran explain itself.
REPLY: This is the funniest statement ever made by the Anti Hadeeth sect. The humor sticks out like a sore thumb after one understands the process explained below:
Major Translators of Quran learns Arabic from grammar books written by people (except Anti Hadeeth translators, of course).
They translate the Quran based on what they learned from the Arabic grammar books and others
Anti Hadeeth exponents reads the translations to try to understand the Quran
Anti Hadeeth derive rules, regulations and methodologies in understanding the Quran
Anti hadeeth says that Arabic Grammar books are written by humans and therefore they cannot be used to understand the Quran.
BUT, all that the Anti Hadeeth has understood of the Quran comes from translations based upon the rules written in these grammar books?
In other words, anti hadeeth has effectively rejected everything they've come to understand from the Quran. This is the humor.
10.0 But, what about translations from the likes of Rashad Khalifah. They too have translation of the Quran
REPLY: Rashad's work is a translation upon translation of the Quran. In other words, he writes his translation by reading other translation of the Quran. So, his translation can be summed up as the translation of the translation of the Quran.
That also explains why Rashad's translation is "politically correct" from the perspective of secular liberalists.
For instance, the verse 16:44, Rashad translates as
(Rashad) ….And we sent down to you this message, to proclaim for the people……..
Compare it with the other reliable translators:
(Yusuf Ali)………and We have sent down unto thee (also) the Message; that thou mayest explain clearly to men what is sent for them…………..
(Pickhall)…… Remembrance that thou mayst explain to mankind that which hath been revealed for them……"
Noticed that Rashad deliberately change the the word "to explain" to become "to proclaim" simply to justify his demented and backward anti hadeeth ideology. He knows that if the meaning of 16:44 is not twisted beyond recognition, it will serve as a deadly blow to his twisted anti hadeeth ideology.
Such is the reason why I say that when quoting translation of the Quran, do not quote Rashad's along with the other names as Rashad's translation is not ion the same stature of the rest.
Rashad's can be characterized as plagerized from other translation while inserting his demented and sick anti hadeeth ideology.
11.0 Why does the Anti Hadeeth needs to reject Arabic Grammar and basically the entire discipline of the Arabic language?
REPLY: If the actual Arabic language methodology is used, then the Quran cannot be interpreted as they will. The Quran will also have to be understood contradictory to their sick and demented ideology. One example is quoted above in my commentary on Rashad Khalifa' translation.
Other examples are as such:
- They cannot claim that Al Kitab and Kitab is the same anymore. This destroys many of their interpretation of the Quran.
- They cannot claim that Al Kitab and Al Hikmah is the same anymore. This will force them to accept the Al Hadeeth as Revelations from God.
- They cannot claim that "faqtulu anfusakum" as " neutralize your ego"
- They cannot claim that masjid and yasjudan means the same; submission
- They cannot claim that Ar Ruh is Al Ilm because it just doesn't make sense
- They cannot claim that there is no Majaz in the Quran
- They cannot claim that there is no Balaghah in the Quran
- They cannot claim that wau atfa in the Quran has no significance in terms of meaning.
- They cannot claim that "faqtau aidiyahuma" as cutting of their means of living
- They cannot claim that there is no aborogation in the Quran
- They cannot claim that there is no Al Am Wal Khas in the Quran
- They cannot claim that the Hadeeth of the Prophet contradicts the Quran anymore
- They cannot claim that the Quran rejects the AlHadeeth An Nabawiy anymore.
Seeing that the Arabic Language discipline results in the Quran contradicting their ideology, they decide to do the next best thing, to reject the Arabic language itself.
They don't realize by doing so, they are also rejecting their entire understanding of the Quran. Since, their entire understanding of the Quran is based upon Quran's translations which is made based upon the Arabic language discipline.
12.0 Anti Hadeeth cited this particular hadeeth as evidence of the hadeeth being stupid:
Narrated 'Aisha:
"The things which annul the prayers were mentioned before me. They said, "Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman (if they pass in front of the praying people)." I said, "You have made us (i.e. women) dogs. I saw the Prophet praying while I used to lie in my bed between him and the Qibla. Whenever I was in need of something, I would slip away. for I disliked to face him"
The likes of True Muslim representing the Anti Hadeeth sect has this to say about this hadeeth:
"According to this precious piece of magnificence from Bukhari, women are like dogs and donkeys. And exactly which verse in the Quran is explained by this precious pearl?"
REPLY: Clearly True Muslim and his kind does not have the mental capability to understand a simple hadeeth like this.
The part- "They said, "Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman" is something which is mentioned to Saidatina Aisyah by someone else other than the Prophet SAW. The next part "I saw the Prophet praying while I used to lie in my bed between him and the Qibla" is meant to refute what Saidatina Aisya has heard.
The hadeeth makes no reference to the Prophet equalizing women with dogs and donkeys. Or maybe the anti hadeeth sect needs to get their eyes examine. While they're at it why don't they get their brains checked as well.
CONCLUSION: I'm beginning to appreciate why certain quarters of the ulama resisted the idea of allowing the translation of the Quran. Apparently, they foresaw the appearance of the likes of Anti Hadeeth sect that will do nothing but disrespect and confuse the message of the Quran even more.
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1,100 Jobs Outsourced or Axed at Nokia
The axe has swung again at Nokia.
The Finnish handset maker said on Thursday that it would cut 300 jobs and transfer hundreds more to other firms. All told, 1,100 jobs, mostly in IT services, will be removed from Nokia's payroll, with about 820 added to those of its operating partners, India's HCL Technologies and Tata Consultancy Services. Nokia describes the cuts as an "IT realignment."
The moves — which ironically follow the preannouncement last week of better-than-expected fourth-quarter results — are part of a massive cost savings plan Nokia announced last summer. At the time, the company said it intended to eliminate 10,000 jobs in its mobile division by the end of this year. Today's cuts are said to be the last from that plan, which was implemented to "rescale" Nokia's operation as it scrambles to reverse its fast-declining fortunes.


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I tend to take my summers off from gaming but when the temperature starts to drop and the leaves begin to change I start itching to pick up a controller or log into some virtual world. I figured since the new expansion is almost here that I might jump back into WoW for a while. I looked around on the armory, checked out my characters and noticed that some of my guilds had been taken over! My main guild that I made way back when WoW first came out hasn't been active in many years, but I kept it around and bought all the bank tabs and kept the characters of everyone who didn't play anymore in there for nostalgic reasons. I used the many bank tabs for storage in my gold making campaign and never thought when I deactivated my account that I'd be saying goodbye to my guild, my inventory and my gold simply because I didn't take the time to kick out all the characters that were not my own.
I ticketed a GM to try to figure out what happened and they told me all about Guild Dethronement, which did not exist when I left the game. They basically said there was nothing they could do but if I had a suggestion about how to improve this feature that I was welcome to share it. There was probably about 100k gold worth of stuff in the guild bank and I believe 100k gold as well, which I'm sure is now long gone. A level 42 druid is the new guild master of a guild I started 7 YEARS AGO! My guild is level one, there have been no achievements or perks unlocked, it was an obviously inactive personal bank guild that someone stole just for the contents of the guild bank. I'm sad and angry that Blizzard would allow for this to happen without so much as attempting to warn inactive players or to remedy the situation at hand.
They spend all this time working to make account security better. We get authenticators and do everything we can to prevent our account from being hacked, and then Blizzard implements something to allow people to ninja entire guilds and their bank contents with no repercussions. Because of my dethronement and the loss of countless hours of collected goods and golds, I will not be reactivating my WoW account after all. It seems a good time to say goodbye to Azeroth forever. The loss is just too great and at this point even angry birds seems much more appealing.
Update : I used a scroll of resurrection and got back into WoW for 7 days to check on my poor lost guilds. It turns out the two that I was dethroned from, the dethroners were kind enough to leave me at a high rank and to not touch anything from the guild banks! I am now the GM of my Horde guild and my dear 7 year old Alliance guild. I have now kicked everyone else out so someone less kind doesn't dethrone me in the future if I don't continue to play.


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'Game Of Thrones' Cast Reacts To Madonna's Daenerys Look
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Madonna recently donned the Daenerys Targaryen look from "Game of Thrones" to celebrate Purim, posting the results on Instagram over the weekend, and the Mother of Dragons, or rather, the woman who plays her – Emilia Clarke – was impressed.
"Oh my goodness. It's insane. I thought I was asleep, I thought I was dreaming," Emilia told Access Hollywood at Tuesday night's "Game of Thrones" premiere at Lincoln Center in New York City of seeing Madonna dressed as her character.
"It's a huge moment," Emilia added. "And, damn! She looks good."
For Gwendoline Christie, who plays Brienne of Tarth, a character that challenges female stereotypes in HBO's fantasy drama, it was a big deal.
"I got really, really excited. Madonna's always been a favorite of mine. I love her strength and her transformative nature and the idea that she might be dressing up as a brilliant character in the TV show I'm in is pretty exciting," Gwen told Access.
Actress (and singer) Carice van Houten joked that Madonna could have chosen another ensemble, namely the one worn by her character, Melisandre, the Red Priestess.
"I was like, 'Why's she not wearing the red dress, man?' No, I completely get it. It's such a great honor for my youth idol to dress up like someone that I'm working with," Carice said. "But the fact that Jack Nicholson and Snoop Dogg and Samuel L. Jackson are watching the show — it's pretty cool too."
Kristian Nairn, who plays the one-lined character Hodor (he just says Hodor – so far!), and who is also a DJ, loved seeing Madonna as Dany.
"[I] kind of freaked out, slightly. That's kind of a sign how big 'Game of Thrones' has got," he said. "The Queen of Pop is wearing a Daenerys costume. I completely freaked out."
John Bradley (Samwell Tarly) thought it was a good example of the show's reach.
"She looks delighted, doesn't she? Look at that. Things like this are just amazing," he said. "It's when you know that you're really kind of pressing the right kind of cultural buttons."
"I'm like still getting over it," Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark) told Access. "But that's amazing. I'm dying."
Alfie Allen told Access he thought it was "fabulous."
"It's crazy. It's mad and everyone's up on it," he added. "It's mental."
"Game of Thrones" Season 4 premieres April 6 at 9 PM ET/PT on HBO.


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Google has launched an update for its Google+ for Android app, and that's good news for all mobile photographers with Android devices. Most of the new features are imaging-related and make Google+ a more powerful image editing, storing and sharing platform. Vic Gundotra, VP Engineering at Google, shared some detail about the update on his Google+ profile:
Non-destructive photo editing across devices
Starting today you can start your edits on one device, and continue (or start over) on another. This means you can backup full-resolution photos from your desktop, edit them in seconds on your phone, then add some finishing touches from your tablet. (And you can revert to your originals at any time!) The technical term for this experience is non-destructive editing in the cloud, and we think you'll really enjoy it.
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Now when you edit your photos, you'll have a powerful set of tools (like crop and rotate), 1-touch filters, and Snapseed-inspired enhancements (like Drama, Retrolux, and HDR Scape). Mix and match to make your photos look their absolute best.
A single view of all your photos
The new 'All' view displays your entire photo library — whether it's on your current device, or backed up in the cloud. If your library is really large (> 10s of thousands of photos), the app won't show all your photos initially. But stay tuned, because we're supporting larger and larger libraries over the next few weeks.
An easy way to browse your photos by date
In addition to search, there's now another way to find your photos fast. Just swipe through your photos in the 'All' view, and look for the scroll bar on the right. Dragging the scroll bar up or down will quickly move you forwards or backwards in time.
It's good to see Google integrate more Snapseed functionality into Google+, after having acquired Nik Software, the German makers of Snapseed, in 2012. Snapseed is still one of the most powerful mobile editing apps out there. Combining some its features with the new non-destructive editing and the Dropbox-style automated image upload that has been a part of the Google+ app for some time could turn the Google+ app into a one-stop shop for mobile photographers (at least for those who share their images on Google+).
We hope the new features will come to the iOS Google+ app sometime soon, too, but for now the upgrade is gradually rolling out to Android users. It hasn't arrived on my phone yet, so I have not yet had a chance to test it but let us know what you think in the comments If you've received the update on your Android device already.
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Preventing Māori suicide focus of upcoming webinars
15 January 2013
For many, New Zealand's high suicide rates – especially for Māori – can seem overwhelming. Suicide among Māori is a complex issue, and most people don't know how they can help.
For those who want to learn about Māori suicide prevention, a free series of live and interactive webinars will be broadcast in 2013.
The Mental Health Foundation (MHF) is hosting the three webinars in collaboration with the Office of the Pro Vice Chancellor Māori, Victoria University of Wellington.
The webinars will address the issue of Māori suicide from an indigenous perspective. Presenters are respected Māori who will speak from their own personal and professional experiences in Māori suicide prevention.
"We hope that these webinars will increase understanding of what can be done to prevent suicide, and increase viewers' capacity to help vulnerable people in their own whānau and communities," says MHF Chief Executive Judi Clements.
The webinars will appeal to anyone interested in Māori suicide prevention, including kaimahi/professionals from a range of sectors who work with Māori whānau, hapū, iwi, hāpori Māori and individuals.
"Whānau is pivotal… it is the key to suicide prevention," says Dr Nicole Coupe, who will be co-presenting the third webinar in March with Dr Lynne Russell.
"For Māori, culture is the centre-point of being connected… whānau will bring them back to their language, their whakapapa, their whenua, their marae. Connecting Māori with whānau is how we can bring them back to life."
The webinar series will be an "an important platform and vehicle for examining how we respond to Māori suicide as whānau, hapū, and iwi," says Keri Lawson-Te Aho, presenter of the first webinar.
The webinar schedule is:
- Preventing Māori suicide: What do we need to do? 29 January 2013 with Keri Lawson-Te Aho from 12:30 pm – 1:30pm
- Preventing Māori suicide: Involving whānau and community 19 February 2013 with Di Grennell and Michael Naera 12:30 – 1:30pm
- Preventing Māori suicide: Improving care and intervention 19 March 2013 with Dr Nicole Coupe and Dr Lynne Russell. 12:30pm-1:30pm
Webinars are online seminars which allow presenters to interact with an audience live over the internet. Find out more and register for the webinars online.
For further information, contact:
Sophia Graham
Communications Officer
Mobile: 021 740 454
About Suicide Prevention Information New Zealand (SPINZ)
Founded in 1999, SPINZ is a non-government, national information service promoting high quality information and resources to promote safe and effective suicide prevention activities.
Part of the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand, SPINZ is contracted by the Ministry of Health to provide its services, in alignment with the New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy and Action Plan.
The SPINZ website has a wealth of resources available to people who are in crisis, as well as those who wish to learn about suicide prevention, or how to respond when someone they know is at risk.


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Over the past few months I've been researching a report for CIRCOM Regional, the association of regional public service broadcasters in Europe. It has just been published at CIRCOM's Annual Conference, held this year in Croatia. The report, all 93 pages of it, examines the social media and online community activities of 39 regional stations across 31 different countries, from the perspective of the user.
It has been a fascinating piece of research to carry out and shows that stations across the continent are using social media and interacting with their audience in quite different ways. You can read the report in full on the CIRCOM Regional website. Here are a few charts that show the broad picture of regional station's engagement with the key social platforms:
{Above: Year regional stations joined Twitter}
{Above: Year regional stations joined Facebook}
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There's a lot in the report, it looks at trends across the region as well as briefly examining each station. It has been a most enlightening exercise for me and I believe a relevant document for anyone with an involvement, or interest, in broadcasting, regional or otherwise, in Europe right now. Full report available here.


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So, after over a year of hiatus, I decided to go back to the game. I went straight for Heroes Charge HD and wanted to play on my old account (it was VIP5 if I'm not wrong).
Sadly, I forgot my account details and server I played at. Plus I recently got a new phone with a new OS (I had iOS and now I use Android).
Is there any way for me to get my old account back? I spent a lot of money and time on that.


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I was constructing my own address in Chinese. - Last year I got a stamp with my
given name (see at the end here). Some of the names can be found as "official"
translations. - With the name of the district and the streetname I'm still unsure
how to construct them, phonetic or logographic... (there are no "official" trans-
literations/translations yet).
The following (what I have found so far in English) might be of general interest:
地球 di4 qiu2 - the Earth
月球 yue4 qiu2 - the Moon (1st symbol also used for month)
日 - ri4 - the Sun (also used for day) (太阳 - tai4 yang2)
Continent Names
- America - 美洲 mei3 zhou1 - beautiful, pretty; pleasing
.............(北美洲 bei3 mei3 zhou1 - North America)
.............(南美洲 nan2 mei3 zhou1 - South America)
Europe - 欧洲 (歐洲) ou1 zhou1 - ohm, /surname/
Asia - 亚洲 (亞洲) ya4 zhou1 - second continent
Africa - 非洲 fei1 zhou1 - non-/not
Australia - 澳洲 (澳洲) ao4 zhou1 - deep and mysterious water
(Australia - 澳大利亚 (澳大利亞) ao4 da4 li4 ya4 - phonetic)
Antarctica - 南极 (南極) nan2 ji2 - south pole
- http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/c ... hinese.htm "Chinese Country Names"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... tymologies "List of country name etymologies" (watch for Zhong Guo)
City names
- http://www.bonus.com/contour/chinese_ch ... ities.html "Cities" (only some ...)
Penang Street Names (found in this forum )
English & Chinese given names and family names
This seems to be the most wanted chapter.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_name "Chinese name" (general description of chinese names)
http://www.informationblast.com/Chinese_name.html "Chinese name" (general description of chinese names)
http://www.informationblast.com/Personal_name.html "Name" (general description)
http://www.free-definition.com/Chinese-name.html "Chinese name" (general description of chinese names)
http://www.chinesenames.org "Chinese Name Translation" (huge, but still incomplete)
http://www.zhongwen.com/x/qian.htm "English names" (only some)
http://www.zhongwen.com/x/xingshi.htm "Chinese surnames"
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3919/ "Chinese Surnames"
http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html "Get your own Chinese name" (intuitive machine translation...)
http://www.merechina.com/yournameinchinese/ "Your Name in Chinese" (only some...)
It seems to be in use to take the latin numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, ...) instead of
the chinese numbers (一, 二, 三, 四, ...) in addresses, phone numbers, etc.
maybe also of interest:
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/c ... ve_map.htm "map of china" (with the names of the regions)
http://www.white-clouds.com/iclc/cliej/cl5hiatt.htm "Chinese Place Names"
_ _ _
BTW: I'm from dégúo, bólín (city of the little bear (german/english), cypress forest (chinese)):
I'm inspired a lot of xing jia: po: (lion city), which has Mandarin as one of the official languages
...and for my given name you can watch


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Music scholar finds sound basis to revolutionise performance
2 July 2012
A University of Sydney scholar has conducted groundbreaking research that could change the way pianists perform music by late-romantic composers such as Brahms, Chopin and Saint-Säens.
In a world first study, Dr Neal Peres Da Costa from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music has extensively researched early sound recordings of late-romantic piano playing, discovering an expressive style of playing at odds with the more "precise" and "clean" style to which modern audiences are accustomed.
The practices Peres Da Costa has uncovered in early acoustic and electrical recordings, as well as reproducing piano rolls, "demonstrates a freedom and expressivity that the majority of today's musicians would consider peculiar or disturbingly eccentric", he says.
"I realised there is a significant gulf between how we play classical and romantic music now and how it was played back then," he muses in Off the Record, his first monograph published by Oxford University Press, to be launched this Tuesday 3 July.
His research focussed on recordings of works by composer/performers Johannes Brahms, Camille Saint-Säens, Carl Reinecke, Theodor Leschetitzky and other virtuosi pianists of this musically dynamic era.
"Either these supposed virtuosi of the period were disrespectful charlatans or there were many things missing in the musical notation. Like most, I had been willing to accept that earlier composers, even Bach and Mozart, may not always have notated what they expected. But with romantic composers, it was a given that everything they wanted was on the page. The score was the final word. What I had taken for granted was about to be turned on its head."
Peres Da Costa, who recently presented his some of his findings at the International Brahms Conference in the United States, said the way the music was played in past eras is "confronting to the modern aesthetic, which is all about precision and accuracy and being clean and tidy."
Peres Da Costa and his colleague at the Conservatorium,Robin Wilson, are members of an ensemble Ironwood which recently performed Brahms' music in what they understand as an historically-appropriate manner at the Eastman School of Music in New York. Wilson says: "The recording era has caused musicians and audiences to become preoccupied with perfection and synchronicity. It has evened out much playing that used to be more flexible, more spontaneous."
"The use of expressive devices today is also very different. For example, on the violin we are taught to shift lightly and inaudibly and use portamento - audible sliding - very discreetly. Continuous use of vibrato is also standard. Back then it was the opposite - they used portamento very prominently and vibrated very discreetly."
Peres Da Costa notes: "When you hear these recordings for the first time, you think these musicians couldn't play properly, and that they didn't have any 'taste', yet that is imposing our modern aesthetic judgement. Today's top piano players might consider this type of performance as amateurish: it is not neat and tidy, it is not exactly as written on the score."
In Off the Record Peres Da Costa makes a passionate case for reintroducing the nearly extinct practices that infused these old performances with character and individuality: dislocation of melodies and accompaniments, arpeggiation of chords, rhythmic alteration and flexibility of tempo.
These new findings "will start to infiltrate performance", he says.
Professor Colin Lawson, Director, Royal College of Music, London, has said of Peres Da Costa's work: "No ambitious performer today can afford to ignore his passionate and convincing arguments."
Dr Karl Kramer, Dean of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, will speak at the book's launch. "The outstanding research undertaken by Dr Peres Da Costa is a significant milestone for Sydney Conservatorium, placing it with Stanford University and the University of Leeds at the forefront in reappraising the performing practises of the old masters," he says.
About Neal Peres Da Costa
Dr Neal Peres Da Costa specialises in performance on historical keyboard instruments of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. He is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Early Music Unit at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Peres Da Costa was co-founder of Florilegium, an internationally renowned period instrument ensemble. He has also performed with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Australis, Orchestra of the Antipodes, Pinchgut Opera, and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.
He has had a long and successful chamber music career with his partner, cellist Daniel Yeadon, winning an Aria Award for Best Classical recording of Bach Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord with Richard Tognetti.
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President Barack Obama walks during his visit to the Hoover Dam, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 in Boulder City, Nev.
On the eve of the first presidential debate, President Barack Obama maintains his national lead over Mitt Romney, but the Republican nominee is well within striking distance, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Obama edges Romney by three points among likely voters, 49 percent to 46 percent, which is within the survey's margin of error. Obama's lead was five points, 50 percent to 45 percent, in the NBC/WSJ poll released two weeks ago, following the political conventions.
But among a wider pool of registered voters, the president is ahead of Romney by seven points, 51 percent to 44 percent.
Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff, argues that the poll results contain good news for both candidates.
More: National trends at work in battleground Colorado
Although the race is tight, Mitt Romney is inching forward, making the upcoming debates between the presidential candidates even more crucial. In the latest NBC/WSJ poll, nearly 40 percent said the debates will be either 'extremely' or 'quite' important. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
For Obama, he's ahead at a time of growing optimism about the economy and nation's direction. For Romney, it's a "margin of error" contest that comes as interest in the upcoming election lags among key Democratic constituencies versus four years ago.
But Hart adds, "Barack Obama has the better hand."
Read the entire poll here (.pdf)
Indeed, the poll also shows the toll the past month has taken on Romney, with a majority of registered voters saying that the events of the last couple of weeks had given them a less favorable impression of the Republican challenger.
What's more, by a 2-to-1 margin, these voters have a negative reaction to Romney's comment – caught on tape from a fundraiser back in May – that "47 percent" of Americans are dependent on government and believe they are victims.
Why the race is closer among likely voters
Among the full universe of registered voters in the poll, Obama leads Romney with African Americans (95 percent to 3 percent), Latinos (winning seven in 10), women (56 percent to 40 percent), and independents (48 percent to 35 percent).
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Mitt Romney embraces a woman, outside Chipotle restaurant in Denver on Oct. 2, 2012.
Romney, meanwhile, has the advantage with whites (54 percent to 41 percent), seniors (52 percent to 43 percent), suburban residents (51 percent to 45 percent), and men (48 percent to 45 percent).
But among voters expressing the highest interest in the election, Obama and Romney are essentially tied (49 percent to 48 percent).
And two key pillars of Obama's political coalition – Latinos and young voters – are much less interested in the election than they were in 2008.
"That helps to explain why it's close among likely voters," Hart says.
Likely voters are defined in the survey as those expressing the highest interest in the upcoming presidential contest (either a "9" or "10" on a 10-point scale), and those who have participated in recent or past elections.
Economic optimism rising
While the race is closer among likely voters, the poll has this good news for Obama: optimism about the economy continues to increase.
Forty-four percent believe that the economy will improve in the next 12 months. That's up from two points in the last NBC/WSJ survey, eight points since August and a whopping 17 points since July.
John Heilemann and Ruth Marcus join Andrea Mitchell Reports to debate whether voters can expect any memorable moments for Wednesday's upcoming presidential debate.
What's more, 57 percent think that the U.S. economy is recovering, versus 39 percent who disagree with that notion.
And four in 10 now say the country is headed in the right direction, which is the highest percentage on this question since June 2009.
"We have a different feeling about the economy than we did this summer," says McInturff, the Republican pollster.
McInturff explains that much of this increased economic optimism is coming from Democrats, whose attitudes are matching their ballot preference. But he adds that it's also coming from political independents and even some Republicans.
Obama vs. Romney on the issues
Given the increased economic optimism, Obama and Romney are nearly tied on which candidate would better handle the economy, with 45 percent picking Romney and 42 percent choosing Obama.
Read the entire poll here (.pdf)
But Obama leads Romney on almost all other issues and character traits – looking out for the middle class (53 percent to 34 percent), handing the situation in the Middle East (48 percent to 32 percent), handling immigration (45 percent to 31 percent), dealing with Medicare (48 percent to 36 percent), being a good commander in chief (47 percent to 39 percent), handling foreign policy (46 percent to 40 percent), and dealing with taxes (46 percent to 41 percent).
Romney, meanwhile, holds the edge on dealing with the federal budget deficit (43 percent to 34 percent) and dealing with the economic challenges that the U.S. faces from China (45 percent to 37 percent).
And the two are tied on who is better equipped to change "business as usual" in Washington (36 percent to 36 percent).
Senior campaign adviser Robert Gibbs explains how President Barack Obama is preparing for Wednesday's debate and whether John Elway's endorsement of Mitt Romney will hurt the president's campaign.
While Obama enjoys an advantage over Romney when it comes to foreign policy, just 45 percent approve of the way he has handled the recent unrest in Egypt, Libya, and other Arab countries.
The president's overall job-approval rating stands at 49 percent, while 46 approve of his handling of the economy.
'47 percent' takes a toll on Romney
The poll – which was conducted Sept. 26-30 – comes after intense scrutiny and TV-ad attacks on Romney's "47 percent" comment, in which he said that percentage of Americans don't pay income taxes, are dependent on government, and believe that they are victims.
After hearing a full description of that comment, 45 percent of registered voters said it gave them a more negative impression of the GOP presidential nominee, versus 23 percent who had a more positive view.
More: Almost 40 percent say upcoming debates will be important
By contrast, when the same respondents were read a full description of Obama's "You didn't build that" line – comments Republicans seized on to portray the president as anti-business – 36 percent had a positive reaction and 32 percent had a negative reaction.
In addition, 51 percent say that what they've heard, seen, and read about Romney in the past couple of weeks gives them a less favorable impression of the former Massachusetts governor, compared with just 36 percent who say the same of Obama.
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In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.
Overall in the survey, 44 percent say they have a negative view of Romney, while 41 have a positive view.
That 41-44 favorable/unfavorable rating is lower than Obama's own 52-42 rating. And it's lower than every other presidential nominee's score at this similar point of time in the history of the poll – except for George H.W. Bush's 34-52 rating in October 1992.
Will the debates change things?
Looking ahead to the presidential debates, nearly four-in-10 registered voters say that the upcoming debates will be either "extremely" or "quite" important in helping determine their vote in the presidential race.
Still, more than 60 percent say that the debates are either "just somewhat important" or "not at all important" to their votes.
McInturff, the GOP pollster, doubts that the debates will change the fundamentals of this contest.
"It would take an episode of some magnitude to disrupt the structural lock in these numbers," he says.
The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted Sept. 26-30 of 1,000 registered voters (including 300 cell phone-only respondents), and it has a margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points. The margin of error for the 832 likely voters is plus-minus 3.4 percentage points.


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Big Pharma, bribery, cancer, cervical cancer, children, Congress, corruption, cover-ups, Deadly, deception, Doctors, false advertising, fines, fraud, Gardasil, heart attacks, HPV, HPV vaccine, Human papillomavirus, laws, lies, lobbyists, Merck, Monsanto, politicians, profits, safety violations, U.S, U.S. Government, United States, vaccines, Vioxx
The pharmaceutical giant Merck enjoys vast revenues if they're able to advertise and "lobby" politicians to pass laws promoting their vaccinations, even while still paying huge fines and settlements for the toxic aftermath of their other medicinal drugs.
Merck has paid out a total of almost $5 billion to settle nearly 27,000 Vioxx civil law suits. This drug, intended for arthritic pain relief, created 27,000 cases of heart attacks and many deaths before Merck recalled it in 2004. Most of the suits occurred after the recall, which had raised a red flag for many Vioxx users and their surviving relatives.
Another $950 million was levied against Merck to pay for fines and civil settlements involving false advertising claims and fraudulent drug trial results for Vioxx. This hasn't deterred Merck from promoting Gardasil and lobbying for governmental support to vaccinate minors without parental consent.
Vaccine manufacturing is a good business for sociopaths. Drug companies are exempt from direct liability for adverse results from vaccines. Vaccines require less testing than drugs for diseases, and they're cheaper to manufacture. So they have a huge profit margin without financial liability risks.
Pushing a Dangerous Vaccine for a Non-Existent Threat
The scare tactic being used to promote Gardasil is cervical cancer protection. The human papilloma virus (HPV) has over 100 strains; Gardasil targets two that cause the most genital warts, while ignoring another 11 that can also lead to cancer. But ninety percent of HPV warts tend to heal on their own within two years. And they can be treated topically before then.
Bottom line, though inconvenient, HPV is not the death-warrant they are spinning it as. It usually goes away on its own or at worst is remedied by mild medical intervention. Even after young women get their three Gardasil-HPV shots, they still need to undergo Pap tests for early cervical cancer detection.
So Gardasil doesn't even guarantee protection against cervical cancer. This data is knowingly omitted from Merck's media press releases, doctor bribes, and political "lobbying" efforts.
VAERS reports 41 cases of cervical cancer following vaccinations with Gardasil. And VAERS (vaccine adverse event reporting service) is voluntary for doctors and mostly unknown to parents and vaccinated adults. It's estimated that perhaps only five percent of vaccine injuries get reported to VAERS. So these reports are a fraction of actual events.
Gardasil's mounting known death toll is almost 75 since 2009, at last count (2012). This is in addition to the serious adverse effects of thousands, of which over 10% are permanent, painful disabilities such as Guillain-Barre Syndrome or other neurological and autoimmune maladies.
Read more here: http://naturalsociety.com/vaccine-dangers-merck-big-pharmas-vaccine-monsanto/?utm_source=Natural+Society&utm_campaign=6c3190ed17-Email+155%3A+5%2F13%2F2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f20e6f9c84-6c3190ed17-323137773


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Day 258: Facing Emotional Suppression
When and as I see myself wanting to hold on to something and/or someone within an illusion in my mind where I have believed that the nature of abuse within the relationship will forever remain, I stop. Instead I breathe, I see, realize and understand that my mind fears losing the relationship because I have formed a pattern of and as it through my acceptance, when in reality, I am aware that I AM able to change the nature of who I am as the abuse to one that honors All Life unconditionally, equally as one.
I commit myself to stop participating when I see myself wanting to hold on to the specific mother/daughter connection/relationship that I have with my daughter/children in order to solidify who I've been within and as superiority because I see, realize and understand that the power of control I've demanded over my children has only created a restraint upon their self expression as well as my own. I commit myself to Stop.
I commit myself to direct myself to stop who I am as anger and spite because I see, realize and understand that to remain acting as such is a total disregard for life itself and I realize that I'm not actually angry at anyone or anything but myself, that I'm actually angry and spiteful within for how and what I've accepted and allowed myself to be and become in my mind in total disregard for who I am as my physical body and for the consequences that doing so creates within and as my world/physical body and reality.
I commit myself to Stop reacting in cycles of abusive patterns of reaction to/towards my daughter/children because I see, realize and understand that I am aware of when the anger rises from within my solar plexus and I understand that I have that moment in breath where I can direct myself to change the very nature of the relationship to one that is supportive, giving and celebratory.
I commit myself to stop my personal self interest and to stop myself from going into a traumatized state of mind when I see that my relationship with someone is changing and instead I commit myself to investigate and practice introspecting with regards to what it is that I have learned from the relationship and how has the relationship enriched my mind, myself and my life and living.
I commit myself to slowing down, to breathe, and to in self honesty really look at the relationships within my life and actually learn from them and through learning from them change my living and my behavior.
I commit myself to opening up a connection with my daughter/children to see, realize and understand that it's opening up within me a particular part of me or a particular expression, or a particular characteristic that I had not yet recognized inside myself that I have accessed through the relationship and I commit myself to allow myself to see the unique expression that each relationship I have with another is a gift for me to recognize about myself.
I commit myself to investigate what is my daughter/my child showing of me that I haven't recognized or lived within myself and what is it of me that I am accessing in relationship with them and in that to see the gift they are giving.
Therefore, I commit myself to stop the mind relationship where I attach another into my mind and make them a part of an energetic episode of spite and anger, to thus stop my fear of things changing and/or stopping the projection of things changing, and to instead live in the moment, to see what I can learn from others from myself everyday and to make the most out of every moment of breath so that together we can focus on changing our world to one where All abuse and suffering such as poverty can be stopped, because in seeing ourselves in another we will learn/accept the gift of giving as we'd like to receive.
I commit myself to be more directive in my life with regards to the relationships within my life, to become more intimate and grateful for the gifts that the connections these relationships have afforded me throughout my life.
"I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that Parents are not Instructed how to Instruct Children and are thus Not Qualified to be Instructors and are thus Destructors that will even Defend their Right to Destroy their Children in spite of the Fact that if one's not Trained in Effective Direct Instruction, one is in fact Not Qualified to have Children under one's Supervision and would Never Employ someone Unqualified to do a Job – yet the most Important Job on Earth, which is to Instruct Newborn Children, is allowed to be Instructed by Unqualified, Inadequate Trainers – resulting in a World where No One is in fact Ever Qualified or Instructed to be part of a Society that is Best for All Present on Earth; and Although lip service is paid to Ideals like 'Love thy Neighbor as Thyself' it is Never Actualized as the Parent as New Life Unqualified Instruction Never Learned the Practical Implication where 'Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself' actually Exists.
I commit myself to SHOW that All Education and Intellect on Earth is Based on the Foundation of Ignorance to Disregard the fact that the Initial Instructions of a New Born Child were Inadequate and thus at Root Cause for a World and Society that live in Ways that Do Not Honor Life or Each other, but only Honor Survival as Successful Living.
I commit myself to SHOW that No One can Walk the Path of Self Correction as What is Best for All Life without Instructions, as the Way to Life is Not In the Inner Structure of the Human, and thus the Desteni-I-Process is of Essential Importance if One is Ready to Face the Nature of a World of Ignorance." Bernard Poolman
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text: WATER PUMP PROJECT IN Dhingurpani Parish, Jharkhand, India has been completed under the direction of the Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts. Fr. S. Antony Samy, Delegate of our Indian Community stated that new bore wells were drilled in ten different villages in the parish allowing the residents to have a convenient source of clean water. Many had previously had to walk long distances from their homes to find water. Through the generosity of a family foundation and donors in the USA, this most worthwhile and vital project was brought to realization. Fr. Subash and Fr. Kujur who serve in the parish report they continually receive many words of appreciation from their parishioners whose daily lives have been positively impacted by this project.


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Vader v. Vader
Vader v. Vader (1899) 349 Gal.Emp.4th 428 is a landmark legal decision in which the Intergalactic Supreme Court held that Darth Vader, despite his mastery over the Dark Side of the Force, could not exist as two separate people at the same time. As legal precedent, the decision paved the way for Darth Vader's involuntary Lithium treatment for Bipolar disorder and Schizophrenia. The case is also credited with ending Darth Vader's previous, annoying habit of referring to himself in the third person[1].
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After rogue Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker turned to the Dark Side of the Force and personally eliminated some 90% of his order, his new mentor Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine placed extreme pressure on the young Jedi to accept his new identity as Sith lord Darth Vader. Imperial psychologists later determined that this imposed tremendous weight on the young dark disciple's psyche, causing him to question his own identity and leading to a crisis of the Ego. [2]
By 1895 according to the Christian calendar of Earth (which is in a galaxy far, far away), young Darth Vader was suffering from hallucinations of alter-ego Darth Vaders, many of them similar to Darth Vader's appearance, yet starkly different. One such alter-ego appeared in the form of a "Hello Kitty" Sith Lord, whilst another was a strange combination of Batman and Darth Vader. The Dark Lord was unable to consolidate these diverging identities, and as a coping mechanism began speaking in the third person. Imperial Officers such as Admiral Ozzel and Captain Piett testified at the ultimate trial to overhearing comments spoken by Lord Vader such as, "Darth Vader's failed himself for the last time," and "Darth Vader doesn't know the power of the Dark Side." The most damning testimony at trial came from Boba Fett, who swore under oath that he had heard Darth Vader say, "Darth Vader is Darth Vader's father."
Darth Vader refused to admit to the psychological strain he was suffering under and instead determined to seek redress through the intergalactic legal system. Bringing a civil action to quiet title to his name, Darth Vader filed the case that infamously came to be known as "Vader v. Vader." Through the case, Darth Vader sought a judicial declaration that he was the one and only Vader. He imagined legal adversaries such as Darth Hello Kitty, Bat Vader, and Darth Steampunk (all of whom are pictured in this article as described by Vader himself during his trial testimony). He even convinced his mentor, Darth Sidious, to act as his lawyer and advocate for his version of events, i.e., persecution at the hands of a series of (imaginary) evil Sith Lords.
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Ultimately, the case made its way to the Intergalactic Supreme Court after being dismissed by the trial court and reinstated by the Court of Astro-Stellar Appeals. Unfortunately for Vader, the High Court issued a stinging reprimand of Emperor Palpatine's second-in-command, classifying him as a "washed-up, Bat Fuck Insane former Jedi." (Vader v. Vader, supra, 349 Gal.Emp.4th at p. 434.) Sitting en banc, the court held that there was one - and only one - Darth Vader. The Intergalactic Supreme Court ordered that Darth Vader be committed to Imperial Rehab "upon pain of death." (Ibid.) When asked if he had anything to say upon being sentenced, Darth Vader screamed at the Chief Justice, "You are weak, old man!" and tried to throw his light saber at him before being restrained by a platoon of Imperial Bailiffs. In a scathing rebuke, an Imperial Law Clerk appended the Opinion in Vader v. Vader with the immortal words, Sic Transit Gloria Vader. (Id. at p. 440.) [3]
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Darth Vader was shipped to a clandestine rehab center on the fourth planet of the Hoth System where he was administered a constant regimen of Lithium and Zoloft by Imperial interrogation droids. After seven months in treatment, he no longer had "bat talks" with an alter ego of himself, and admitted that he had been the only party (both plaintiff and defendant) in his lawsuit of Vader v. Vader. His mind sound at last (except for the twisted hatred that comes with the Dark Side), Darth Vader was released from rehab on his own recognizance, but had to pay a fee of $15,000 Imperial Marks to the Intergalactic Supreme Court as a fine for bringing a false trial.
The case also had wider repercussions. Prior to the decision, Imperial Storm Troopers were not lawfully allowed to utilize interrogation droids to "soften up" suspects and witnesses. After the precedent allowing even Darth Vader to be compelled to submit to involuntary drugging, however, all of the subjects of the Galactic Empire became subject to involuntary civil commitment proceedings, often involving convoluted "drug cocktails" mixed by the bartender from the cantina on Mos Eisley. Never before or since has there been a legal decision of such wretched scum and villainy as Vader v. Vader.
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Full video is at the KSTP website. And here's Goldstein writing yesterday on this very subject:
[W]e should draw a lesson from the charges of Bill Bennett's "racism"—cast by those who don't believe Bennett intended to say anything racist, but who insist, rather, that his words themselves were racist (an idea that grants that public perception is the locus of meaning, and that the utterer can be held accountable for the public perception). Such a dismissal of the importance of intent has led, predictably, to a rhetorical condition wherein those who protest the loudest (and can play to our emotions) will have effectively seized control of "history" as it is constructed and disseminated through language.
Update: The daughter of the last president to grant blanket amnesty holds true to typically dopey form, tying border enforcement to "rudeness." Or something.
[O]n May 1, thousands of immigrants across the country marched and waved flags and professed their love for America. Doesn't anyone see the irony in this? These are people who not only put up with the same climate of rudeness the rest of us do, but they're paid poorly, they will never get their Social Security benefits (if they're here illegally) and now there is a move to send them all away. Yet they sincerely love this country. They're willing to see past our obvious shortcomings and work hard to live here.


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Groom, Mahmoud Mansour, a Muslim and his wife Malcha Morel, Jewish convert, the home of the family of Mahmoud in the neighborhood of Jaffa in Tel Aviv, August 17, 2014 (Photo Daniel Bar-On. AFP)
"We've been together for five years, but we've never encountered such racism. I always knew there were racists, but as long as you're not affected by it, until you feel it in your body, you don't know what it is," Mahmoud Mansour told Haaretz when recalling the death threats he received because he married an Israeli and former-Jewish woman on 17 July.
Mansour, 26, is an Arab Muslim with Israeli citizenship. He married his long-time girlfriend Morel Malcha, 23, in Rishon leZion, an Israeli city south of Tel Aviv. Malcha was born into a Jewish family but converted to Islam after meeting Mansour.
A week before the wedding, the far-right Jewish organization Lehava got hold of the couple's wedding invitation and posted it on Facebook, urging its supporters to condemn the wedding and to 'save' Malcha from her future Arab husband. The wedding couple received several death threats, causing them to ask the Israeli court to prevent the demonstration from happening. Their request was denied on their wedding day, although it restricted protestors from coming closer than 200 meters from the wedding venue.
Afraid that the protest would turn violent and ruin their wedding day, Mansour and Malcha hired 33 security guards of a total cost of over $4,000, which they had to pay for themselves. "Why are they forcing me to spend out of my own pocket? […] If something happens, they're supposed to take care of it, not me," Mansour told Haaretz.
The Lehava activists chanted anti-Arab sentiments and accused the bride of making an awful mistake, reported Dahlia Scheindlin of the left-wing Israeli 972 Magazine, who was present at the scene. One Jewish woman told her that "the children could all turn out to be Hamas! They might be Jews killing Jews, and they wouldn't even know it," ignoring the fact that Mansour is an Israeli citizen and has no affiliations with Hamas.
Lehava – the 'Organization for the Prevention of Assimilation in the Holy Land' – is an organization that aims to prevent intermarriage between Jewish and non-Jewish people. The organization opened a hotline in September 2013, through which citizens can call to inform Lehava members on relations between Jewish women and Arab men. The hotline also provides names of Arab men that the organization suspects of being involved with Jewish women. The service, it says, is meant to "save the daughters of Israel."
Lehava is led by Bentzi Gupstein, a former member of the extreme right-wing Kach party, which was banned by the Israeli government in 1994. A Haaretz research in 2011 showed that Lehava is closely linked to the Israeli non-profit organization Hemla, which receives state-funding. Gupstein is Hemla's public relations director and receives a yearly salary of approximately $10,000 from the organization.
Gupstein also publically objected to the wedding of Mansour and Malcha. "We are still at war and she is marrying a member of the enemy," he told Israeli news website NRG.
The enemy from inside
The idea that Arab Israelis – or Palestinian citizens of Israel – are a threat to the state of Israel is not new. A survey conducted in 2012 by the University of Haifa and the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) showed that 57 per cent of the Jewish Israelis avoided Arab areas in Israel out of fear. An additional 69 per cent believed that an Arab citizen defining himself as "a Palestinian Arab in Israel" is unable to be loyal to the Israeli state and its laws.
A renewed increase of discrimination seems apparent since the overwhelmingly right-wing 18th Knesset was appointed in 2009. Avigdor Lieberman was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs while his party Yisrael Beitenu used the slogan "No Loyalty – No Citizenship" during their 2009 election campaign, directly targeting Arab Israelis as being disloyal.
As of the start of 'Operation Protective Edge' last July, several human rights organizations reported cases that involve Palestinian citizens of Israel who are suspended from their jobs or universities for supporting Gaza or critiquing the Israeli military on social media.
"At least 25 Facebook pages have been set up with names like "not in our schools" and "exposing traitors" where people copy statuses of Palestinian Israelis alongside their photos and places of work, requesting that the general public call on their employers to fire them," argues Gadeer Nicola, a lawyer at the New Israel Fund (NIF), on the NIF-website.
One of those cases is the suspension of Dr. Haitham Rajabi from Shaare Zedek Medical Center in West-Jerusalem last month. Rajabi was suspended after he called Israeli soldiers operating in Gaza murderers. "Even in times of peace, and not only during a justified war to defend the home front, false accusations that IDF soldiers are war criminals is totally unacceptable, especially from an employee of the State of Israel," Dr. Zeev Rotstein, the hospital's director stated on the facility's Facebook page.
Rajabi, who received several death threats after the hospital published his name in a public apology letter, responded by saying to Haaretz: "I wrote against the killing of children, not in favor of Hamas. […] This isn't connected to my work as a doctor; I treat everyone, Jews, Arabs and soldiers… Who killed those children if not the soldiers?"
Raafat Awaisha also found out that posting one's opinion on Facebook is not without consequences. Awaisha, a 20-year-old Arab Israeli student at Ben Gurion University in Beersheba, was detained and questioned by the Israeli police after he published a Facebook status calling for public opposition to Israel's mass bombing in Gaza. "We have to go out and scream and shout and say no to this country's policies in Gaza," Awaisha's post on 30 July read. He also shared an invite for a protest held later that day in the village of Laqiyeh, in southern Israel.
Upon his return to Ben Gurion University, a sign on his dormitory room read: "the only good Arab is a dead Arab, and you're next," he said in an interview with the Financial Times.
Not a legal practice
It is not a legal practice to punish Arab Israelis who state their personal opinions in the personal sphere where they are not directly insulting anyone.
The Israeli Employment Law specifically states that "an employer shall not discriminate among his employees […] because of their (…) nationality, country of origin (or) views." The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) adds that in general, when statements are made outside of the workplace, like in the Rajabi-case, employers do not bear responsibility for the content. In addition, employers should refrain from interfering in the personal sphere of their employees.
There is "a very narrow scope" of cases in which it is justified to take disciplinary measures against an employee, says Steven Back, Director of International Relations of ACRI, to Palestine Monitor. These are cases in which the statements of an employee can be held against him in the workplace.
"If, for example, an Arab doctor working in an Israeli hospital posted that he or she would not treat Jewish patients because of x or y reasons, that could be cause of a disciplinary investigation. The same would be true of a Jewish doctor towards Arab patients," Beck explains.
Like employers, universities do not bear responsibility for their students' statements. In addition, "the heads of Israel's academic institutions (…) have neither the authority, nor the duty, to judge students and take punitive measures against them in respect of statements they have posted on social networks," stated ACRI-attorney Tal Hassin in a letter to Hagit Messer-Yaron, the vice-chair of the Council of Higher Education in Israel.
The letter also addresses "serious concerns that (institutions of higher education) are acting according to emotional and patriotic motives, which does not accord with their public function […] This concern is further exacerbated by the fact that no actions have been taken against Jewish students, despite the fact that social forums are simmering with harsh and racist comments against Palestinians, in Israel and Gaza, some of which were written by students."
Even though the Israeli law regarding free speech does not distinguish between citizens who are Jewish and those who are non-Jewish, "the events of the summer serve to accent that the law is not always applied equally", says Steven Beck to Palestine Monitor.
ACRI holds that freedom of expression is essential in a democratic country, regardless of the emotions that certain statements can trigger. Israeli President Reuven Revlin of Likud seems to agree. In response to the turmoil around the wedding of Mansour and Malcha, he stated on his Facebook page:
"Mahmoud and Morel from Jaffa have decided to marry and to exercise their freedom in a democratic country. The manifestations of incitement against them are infuriating and distressing, whatever my opinion or anyone else's might be regarding the issue itself. Not everyone has to rejoice their happy occasion, but everyone must respect it."
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